One person’s action affects other people’s actions.
Everybody stops when the music starts playing except one guy. Andy looks satisfied, content, feels like everybody is free. Andy thinks it’s funny that he is locking everybody out. When something tells you not to do something, your first insist is to actually does it.
The danger of hope
Class Notes 9/20 (recorded by Jenny Busch):
Narration
- Red narrates throughout the story
- Keeps Andy a mystery, keeps the ending scene a secret throughout the whole movie.
- Red had more experience in jail and could give a better perspective as to what prison life was really like, describes the workings of the prison (like the people and what part they have in the prison)
Hope
- Red doesn’t want to hope because he doesn’t want to be let down, so it is easier not to hope.
o You see Red have hope during his parole interviews. He rehearses his speech and then the last interview he puts hope aside and just says what he wants. “The truth sets him free.”
- Red kind of detaches himself from his want to get out of prison and is just angry when he goes in for the parole interview
Escape Scene
- Andy’s escape scene when he is in the water could symbolize Baptism and washing him clean.
- Things that didn’t make sense about the escape
o How did he get in the pipe
o How did he know where to go
o Where did he get the rock to break the pipe
- Strange things he does after he escapes
o He goes to 12 banks the next day, that would take awhile to get those transactions to go through
§ Somebody could have recognized him because he was a banker 20 years beforehand
- Reasons why jail exist:
- Keep the public safe
- Punish the bad
- Rehabilitate
- Warn/ Deter
One person’s action affects other people’s actions.Everybody stops when the music starts playing except one guy.
Andy looks satisfied, content, feels like everybody is free.
Andy thinks it’s funny that he is locking everybody out.
When something tells you not to do something, your first insist is to actually does it.
The danger of hope
Class Notes 9/20 (recorded by Jenny Busch):
Narration
- Red narrates throughout the story
- Keeps Andy a mystery, keeps the ending scene a secret throughout the whole movie.
- Red had more experience in jail and could give a better perspective as to what prison life was really like, describes the workings of the prison (like the people and what part they have in the prison)
Hope
- Red doesn’t want to hope because he doesn’t want to be let down, so it is easier not to hope.
- o You see Red have hope during his parole interviews. He rehearses his speech and then the last interview he puts hope aside and just says what he wants. “The truth sets him free.”
- Red kind of detaches himself from his want to get out of prison and is just angry when he goes in for the parole interviewEscape Scene
- Andy’s escape scene when he is in the water could symbolize Baptism and washing him clean.
- Things that didn’t make sense about the escape
- o How did he get in the pipe
- o How did he know where to go
- o Where did he get the rock to break the pipe
- Strange things he does after he escapes